EMPIRE RECORDS (1995) - Corporate Alternative, Tripping Out Tobey Maguire and Toad The Wet Sprocket

This week, Komar and Liam go head first into football lore to discuss one of the most notorious tales in soccer lore. Komar gets to gush about Timothy Spall, Liam mentions wanting to own a framed photo of Vinnie Jones crushing balls and the boys get deep in the soccer weeds. Lawsuits, drunk lore, fictionalized biographies and hooliganism galore!

DAMN THE MAN! SAVE THE EMPIRE! This weeks episode, we get our POG collections out, drink a couple of Ok Cola and jam to some TOAD THE WET SPROCKET! The boys get into the 90s coming of age cult classic, Empire Records. Discussion includes Tobey Maguire losing his mind, an SUV car crash on set, Kimo Willis getting sent to prison, garbage tier 90s alternative acts, our collective hatred of Aerosmith and so much more.

PART TWO IN HERE! We continue our discussion of 1987's biggest blockbuster that every was with tales of internal sabotage, review bombing out of spite, broken friendships and we share our feelings on Ishtar itself.

WE GOT A HEAVY HITTER! This week starts our two part episode deep dive into one of the most notorious box office bombs of all time. Larue set the boys up with 1987's "misunderstood" comedy Ishtar, starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty. In part one, we get into all the juicy chaos from productions. Beatty butting heads with director Elaine May, PLO trying to kidnap Dustin Hoffman, sweeping land mines before shooting, $100k dune flattening, a disastrous post production and so much more.

The gang get political! This week, Komar got the boys to sit down and watch the forgotten Oscar Bait political drama, 2018's The Frontrunner starring Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Bill Burr and a list of other notable actors. Discussion includes Jason Reitman's very boring career, the tale of Gary Hart, failed Oscar films, Larue saying more outrageous things as usual, mumblecore and this weird little film that no one remembers.

GET ON THAT DANCE FLOOR AND KILL IT BABY!! This week on an insane two part episode, Liam gets deep into one of his Covid hype fixations as the gang discusses 2003's Party Monster starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Dylan McDermott, Wilmer Valderrama and Wilson Cruz. In part two, we finally get to discussing Party Monster (2003), it's limited release, how Party Monster twists the truth, and the epilogue on Michael Alig's post prison life and (spoiler alert) untimely death.

GET ON THAT DANCE FLOOR AND KILL IT BABY!! This week on an insane two part episode, Liam gets deep into one of his Covid hype fixations as the gang discusses 2003's Party Monster starring Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Dylan McDermott, Wilmer Valderrama and Wilson Cruz. In part one, Liam dives into the true crime behind the biopic, discussing Michael Alig, Disco Bloodbath, the Club Kids of the early 90s, the murder of Angel Melendez and the bizarre true story that inspired Party Monster.

This week, the boys are back to take revenge on their biggest enemy, Lorne Michaels and NBC. We get into Norm Macdonald's leading role debut, 1998's Dirty Work, starring Macdonald himself, Artie Lange, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley (in his final role) and so many cameos. Discussion includes making fun of Chris Kattan, SNL drama, Bob Saget, the summer of 1998, OJ Simpson and so much more.

This week, the crew sits down with the oldest movie they've covered and discuss John Huston's odd meta parody, 1953's BEAT THE DEVIL! Discussion includes car crashes, wrestling matches between Truman Capote and Humphrey Bogart, cliffside freefalls, decade re-evaluation and so much more. Plus, we found out the 1950s were loaded with horse movies and racist westerns.

THIS WEEK, the boys get their wrestling boots on for this slobberknocker of an episode, as the boys suffer thru 2000's READY TO RUMBLE! Discussions include as brief of a breakdown as possible on World Championship Wrestling (WCW), David Arquette winning the world title, Scott Caan being Scott Caan, Joey Pants, Rose McGowan suffering in this awful movie, one of the worst acting performances we've seen in a while, the death of WCW and so much more.